Ukrainian Deaths Reporting on the Military Summary Channel at midday today, February 27, Dima notes that in contrast to Zelenskiy’s recent (ludicrous) claim that Ukraine has lost only 31,000 soldiers killed over the period of the entire SMO, the Russian MoD calculates the actual figure to be 444,000 (although it is not clear to me whether these are simply the dead, or the dead plus severely wounded), and Dima himself calculates the figure at 440,000. Dima sees the purpose behind Zelenskiy’s claim, if I understand him correctly, is to moderate the number of men who will need to be demobilized and then, later remobilized, and to make it appear, possibly, that the new mobilization will appear to be adding significantly to the size of the Ukrainian army, once the “number” of those killed is taken into account (i.e. that the mobilization is something other than simply replacing the dead with young, barely trained troops). The mobilization law is still stuck in the Ukrainian parliament.
Paris Panic
Paris Panic
Paris Panic
Ukrainian Deaths Reporting on the Military Summary Channel at midday today, February 27, Dima notes that in contrast to Zelenskiy’s recent (ludicrous) claim that Ukraine has lost only 31,000 soldiers killed over the period of the entire SMO, the Russian MoD calculates the actual figure to be 444,000 (although it is not clear to me whether these are simply the dead, or the dead plus severely wounded), and Dima himself calculates the figure at 440,000. Dima sees the purpose behind Zelenskiy’s claim, if I understand him correctly, is to moderate the number of men who will need to be demobilized and then, later remobilized, and to make it appear, possibly, that the new mobilization will appear to be adding significantly to the size of the Ukrainian army, once the “number” of those killed is taken into account (i.e. that the mobilization is something other than simply replacing the dead with young, barely trained troops). The mobilization law is still stuck in the Ukrainian parliament.